A remote monitoring system for your cooler or freezer may be just what you are looking for! Learn how our real-time IoT temperature monitoring system benefits Choovio customers.
It is a well-known fact that managing businesses in the food industry is challenging, and making a profit becomes even more difficult. There may be limitless things to keep track of, from managing utilities to maintaining compliance with health and safety requirements. Managers wishing to optimize company operations can benefit from introducing a cost-effective IoT (internet of things) integrated remote monitoring device, such as Choovio, which can help relieve some of the load.
Choovio’s IoT sensors and temperature monitoring system uses LoRaWAN, the latest remote monitoring technology to measure temperature and humidity throughout cold storage facilities, in order to reduce loss events in the foodservice industry. However, did you realize that Choovio can help you enhance other elements of your business as well?
Choovio’s real-time data collection process aids in the evaluation of equipment performance, the assurance of consistent product quality, inventory protection, and the identification of staff training deficiencies.
Benefits of Temperature Monitoring System
Check out how real Choovio customers have customized our software to meet their specific requirements:
1) Evaluating the performance of the equipment
Management may evaluate which units function better than others depending on the frequency and duration of temperature excursions by using Choovio’s 24/7 data collecting and real-time notifications throughout the restaurants. Using this knowledge, they can take numerous steps to prevent equipment failures and secure their vital assets.
Management, for example, can instruct their employees to follow preventative maintenance procedures such as cleaning gaskets and compressors. Operators can also schedule routine inspections from experienced maintenance professionals to optimize their equipment.
Personnel can proactively remedy issues that cause downtime, including switching out broken components and containing chemical leakage, during these routine maintenance checkups.
The truth is that refrigeration systems may experience breakdowns from time to time, which is true of both new and old refrigeration systems. New equipment (i.e., less than ten years old) nevertheless has a 33% probability of failing every year. An effective IoT heat monitoring system can dramatically reduce these equipment failures.
Unfortunately, equipment failures have significant consequences, with many of them resulting in costly repairs. Choovio’s low-cost IoT remote heat monitoring system and predictive maintenance enabled KK eateries to mitigate the effects of these problems while improving equipment efficiency.
Pre-consumer food waste costs foodservice organizations 28-35 percent of their annual revenue. This does not account for the additional operating costs incurred due to the device’s downtime while it is being fixed, though.
2) Consistency and Quality Assurance
Restaurants may benefit from the real-time humidity notifications supplied by Choovio’s IoT temperature monitoring system, which can be relied upon.
By implementing Choovio in their facility zones, they will be able to make real-time decisions that will improve their product while also achieving significant cost reductions.
” Having the ability to either handle or monitor factors just makes a considerable difference in what our final creation will be like for the customers buying our cuisine,” says an owner of a well-known pasta company.”
Many restaurants operate out of a cloud kitchen or a shared commissary, saving money on maintenance. Other restaurant workers continuously opening doors and doing things that cause excessive humidity, such as boiling water, is one disadvantage of using a cloud kitchen. Another drawback is that it is challenging to forecast when other restaurant workers will arrive.
Being able to rely on reliable humidity monitoring technology is like receiving a weather report for restaurant owners. When they receive a Choovio alert, they are informed of the specific environmental conditions in the kitchen at that particular time. As a result, they will adjust his production to accommodate particular scenarios in the future.
To illustrate, let us look at flour as an example in a pasta company. Because the product is made using extremely high-quality flour that has been crushed at shallow temperatures, it must be kept at these low temperatures during storage to avoid a deterioration in quality.
It has been observed that temperature changes in our freezers can and have had an impact on flours and result in spoilage. Ideally, there shouldn’t be any moisture inside the container. The use of humidity sensors, in our opinion, allows you to maintain consistency and quality at all times.
3) Temperature monitoring system to keep inventory secure
Businesses in the foodservice industry can now benefit from the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and data collecting, allowing them to use the knowledge to impact their decision-making and save money.
A food facility manager explains that the refrigeration and HVAC equipment begins to fail as the temperature rises above 115 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. “It is just thermodynamics,” he says. This puts the restaurant employees through a test of their decision-making abilities: either they must slow down production by transporting dairy to remote sites or lose their inventory due to spoiling. He thinks that the cost of loss events is between $800 and $1500 per instance in which their equipment breaks.
This manager has prevented loss incidents due to equipment failure after implementing Choovio’s temperature monitoring system in their sites. This has been made possible by the benefits of the Internet of Things devices and our real-time notifications.
In one recent incident, he received an alert that the temperature in one of their walk-in refrigerators had increased significantly. When he received a second alarm, he immediately contacted a maintenance professional to come onsite and repair their system within two hours. He avoided a severe loss due to this quick action, demonstrating the significance of Choovio’s remote monitoring solution.
The ability to monitor your equipment on an hourly basis is incompatible with having staff focused on their customers and product. The Choovio system has proven to be beneficial and many customers have experienced a significant return on their investment very soon.”
4) Temperature monitoring system to identify training gaps and food safety assurance
Restaurants can depend on Choovio to identify instances where their staff does not adhere to proper closing protocols after their shifts. They discovered that critical operations can be overlooked because supervisors cannot always be present onsite. Choovio gives their staff a strong remote monitoring solution that they can use from anywhere.
For example, regulatory standards in a restaurant state that cold rails should be turned off once service is completed to decrease the consumption of essential and expensive resources like electricity. It is critical to reduce high utility bills to realize significant financial savings while encouraging environmental sustainability. With the rising cost of inventory and labor, there has never been a period when this was more critical.
Apart from that, restaurants rely on Choovio to maintain the safety of the items stored in their front-of-house reach-in refrigerators. It is possible for items stored in these locations to become spoiled due to the warm surrounding atmosphere that leaks via open doors or doors with defective seals. By ensuring that the commodities stored in these areas are kept at safe operating temperatures, companies may safeguard their clients from foodborne disease while avoiding health code infractions for their enterprises.
Choovio’s IoT technology allows restaurants to receive real-time temperature data from their dashboard, allowing management to determine whether or not their crew is following necessary standards at night. Suppose their employees fail to adhere to these nightly protocols. In that case, management can train to fix the problem before it increases their expenses.
